Imaging below the diffraction limit: A statistical analysis

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 677-689

  Shahram, Morteza ^a   Milanfar, Peyman ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Cram r Rao bound; Diffraction; Estimation; Hyphothesis test; Imaging; Rayleigh limit; Resolution; Super resolution

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CRAMER-RAO BOUND; DIFFRACTION LIMIT;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 2442541185     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2004.826096     Document Type: Article

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